Make It Neat

     When it rains it pours.  Our streak of bad luck continues to haunt us as we have experienced yet another setback/delay.  Last Friday, we discovered the refrigerator went on strike - permanently.  The refrigerator is a vintage 1991 model that had been repaired once already by a previous owner for a refrigerant leak in 1999 and has developed another leak.  The freezer, a separate unit which is from a pre-refrigerator era, is questionable as to its true condition and is suspect for catastrophic failure in the very near future.  So, out with the old and in with the new. Both units will be replaced this week.  Hopefully, and if my calculations are correct, the new units will greatly reduce our electrical loads on the house batteries because they are dual electric, 12VDC & 120VAC.  The old units were 120VAC and between the two we would burn up 300+ amps hours (12VDC) between battery chargings.  We will run the new units on the 12VDC side at about 1/3 of the amp draw or less.  More on that later after we have a chance to get some real time operational data.  The only down side to the new units is they are a little smaller and the freezer does not have an ice maker.  No ice maker, oh well, back to scotch - make it neat.